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- From: jhsu@eng-nxt03.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason Hsu)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Investment jive talk
- Message-ID: <C1GyHA.9Cu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:15:09 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.131516.17678@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- In article <1993Jan26.131516.17678@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib) writes:
- > In article <C1FrKI.6uz@space.physics.uiowa.edu>
- rlm@sunlight.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
- > >Forthe neophyte investors among us (e.g. yours truly) could someone
- post a small glossary of commonly
- > >used investment slang? For example, short, long, bottom-feeding,...
- >
- > Even if you can't post a glossary can someone at least tell me what
- > bottom-feeding is? Sounds intriguing.
-
- I have never heard of bottom-feeding, but I have heard of bottom fishing.
- Bottom fishing is the purchasing of declining stock because one believes
- it is at its exact bottom. I advise against it; the first thing I want to
- know about a stock is its price/book value ratio. Going long (the most
- common form of investment and speculation) is the direct purchase of a
- stock and is done when one believes the price of a stock will rise. Going
- short (or short-selling) is the borrowing of shares and selling them in
- the hopes that the stock price will fall so that the shares can be bought
- back at a lower price and given back to the owner.
-